Reading .dsk images on a real MSX with hdd

Most MSX user nowadays use a hdd with their beloved MSX, a lot of them also play games from that ver hdd... But there are a few jewels of games which won't work as an image file. The same image files work perfectly with an emulator on pc. Personally I don't like emu's very much (except when I'm @ work ).

Can't there anything be done so I (we) use diskimages on the real MSX with the advantage of a hdd as well?

I think there is an application called HDDEMU or something like that.
You can use DSK images using that application, but you need at least a turboR !

K.

I tried hddemu on my Turbo-R but i.e. Xak2 just won't work....

Tonight I'check the other programs on this site

edit: well, the programs described on the MSXfaq I already tried. I think it's very strange that the Xak2 images work perfectly on my pc with an emu and not on my real MSX with hdd. That's my point and the reason of opening this topic

Emu's are cool when you don't have a real MSX, but there is so much effort put in the perfectioning of the emu's. Maybe too much? Maybe was it better that the efforts were put in programming cool tools etc. for the real MSX?